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• The Mind Behind the Web
  Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web and continues to shape its frantic evolution. He's not rich or famous. Which is fine by him

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• Facts about the Web's Creation
  Everything you ever wanted to know about the Web's first days

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• Remembering the Day the World Wide Web Was Born
  What drove Tim Berners-Lee to imagine this game-changing model for information sharing, and will its openness be its undoing?

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• The Future of Computing (Circa 1999)
  M.I.T.'s Laboratory for Computer Science is developing a new infrastructure for information technologies--the Oxygen system--that promises to realize a vision long held by the lab's director: helping people do more by doing less

 

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Berners-Lee returns to CERN to reminisce on the Web's past and focus on its future
The one-time CERN software consultant who went on to invent the Web and found the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (M.I.T.) spoke about how far the Web has come, and how far it still needs to go

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A Science of the Web Begins

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How the Large Hadron Collider Might Change the Web
The LHC Computing Grid may teach the Internet how to quietly handle reams of information

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The Semantic Web in Action
Corporate applications are well under way, and consumer uses are emerging

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Millennium Foundation Recognizes Inventors and Technologies That Changed the World
Scientists at Bell Labs, Harvard--M.I.T. and the University of Leicester are among the finalists for the $1.8-million Finnish award

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We are the world: Web's designer launches foundation to bring invention to all
The World Wide Web Foundation, founded by Tim Berners-Lee, will bring the Web to people who dont have ready access to it